The US presidential candidates’ race entered round two this week with Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries. The outcome of voting came too late for this week’s Guardian Weekly print deadline, but Guardian US’s extensive online coverage will fill you in on the details.
Taking a longer view on the race for the White House, we go behind the scenes with a closer look at Ted Cruz, Republican winner of last week’s Iowa caucus. The Texas senator’s shall we say strident views may have been largely overshadowed by Donald Trump, but he has been causing quite a stir in his birthplace of Calgary, Canada, where few people seem to have a good word for their Republican former son, as reporter Omar Mouallem finds out.
On the cover this week we visit Colombia, where the drawing to a close of the civil war is delivering a mixed legacy: peace on the one hand, but a revival of coca leaf production on the other. Also in South America, we look at how the mosquito-borne Zika virus is affecting life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and how far the epidemic is likely to spread beyond the continent.
Syria’s civil war is reaching a critical juncture, with Bashar al-Assad’s Russian-backed forces close to recapturing the key city of Aleppo. As another humanitarian refugee crisis builds on Turkey’s border with Syria, Ian Black surveys the dim prospects for peace in the region. Elsewhere in the Middle East, the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank drew widespread criticism from human rights groups.
In France, a grammatical clean-up of the language has caused consternation. In Japan, the treatment of a female TV personality has led to accusations of societal double standards towards women.
There’s a strong scientific thread in the second half of the paper this week. Discovery looks at successful trials of the drug ketamine in treating depression, while the Books pages weigh up an interesting theory about dark matter and the fate of the dinosaurs.
Most art lovers will know of the inspiration Monet drew from his garden at Giverny. But on the back of a major show in London, our expanded Culture offering considers other examples of great pastoral art. There’s also a look at innovative architectural responses to natural disasters, and our full page of reviews includes a look at the Coen brothers’ latest film release, Hail, Caesar!.
Notes & Queries considers delusional world powers, while Good to Meet You hears from one of our many readers for whom the Weekly has doubled up as an English language teaching aid over the years. We love to hear your stories of how you got to know the paper, so why not send us yours here?
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